Tired of Ghost Job Postings, We Built Nodi AI: A Free Tool to Find Real Jobs

It has surely happened to you. You find a posting that looks perfect: it has a salary range, describes the team, lists the requirements, includes a nice paragraph about the company culture. It fits your profile. You apply, full of hope. You see there are already more than a hundred people in line. And then… silence. Days go by, then weeks, and a reply never comes.

You are not doing anything wrong. Most likely, you applied to a ghost job: an opening the company posted with no real intention of hiring.

The problem: job hunting in a market full of smoke and mirrors

Ghost jobs are not a theory or an exception. They are a documented and growing phenomenon. An analysis by the Greenhouse platform, reported by The Wall Street Journal, found that up to 22% of the job postings published online in 2024 could be "ghost jobs": in other words, one in five openings had no real intention to hire behind it. And almost 70% of the companies that use that software posted at least one during the year.

The most discouraging part is what happens next. According to surveys of hiring managers, around 40% of companies admit to having posted fake openings, and up to 85% of those go as far as interviewing candidates for positions they never planned to fill. Real people, with real hopes, investing hours preparing for interviews for jobs that do not exist.

Why do they do it? The reasons are cold: collecting resumes "just in case," projecting an image of growth to investors, comparing how much salary people are willing to accept, or even faking movement to motivate their own employees. In none of those reasons does the candidate matter.

The result is a job market where uploading your resume to a job board and waiting has become an exercise in frustration. You send dozens of applications into a black hole. And little by little, you stop trusting.

The turning point: listening to the people looking for work

At Nodi we know that pain up close, because we hear it every day from the people in our community. Not from a statistic, but from concrete messages: "I applied to twenty postings and nobody answered," "I don't know which openings are real," "I feel like I'm talking to a void."

That is when we decided that complaining about the problem was not enough. We had to build an alternative.

And we did not want to do it alone, locked in an office imagining what people need. We built it hand in hand with our community, with constant feedback: showing prototypes, listening to what was frustrating, what was missing, what did work. Every iteration came out of real conversations with people who are looking for a job today. In practice, they were co-authors of the tool.

The solution: Nodi AI, your AI-powered job search tool

That is how Nodi AI was born: a free tool that completely changes the way you look for a job.

Instead of filling in rigid filters and browsing hundreds of dubious ads, you simply tell it what you are looking for in your own words. For example:

• "Remote frontend at a tech startup"
• "Product manager with fintech experience"
• "Senior Python backend in LATAM"
• "UX designer at a remote-first company"

From there, Nodi AI asks you the right questions, the way a good recruiter who genuinely wants to understand you would, to refine what you need and connect you with opportunities that fit your profile, your skills and your conditions. No smoke and mirrors, no eternal openings that never get filled, no talking to a void.

Why it is different

It is free. Nodi AI is a tool for candidates, at no cost. Looking for a job is hard enough without having to pay for it on top.

You talk, you do not fill out forms. You speak to it in natural language and the AI takes care of turning that into a precise search.

It is designed to connect you with real opportunities, not to fatten a database with your resume.

The community built it. It is not a product imposed from above: it was born and keeps evolving with the feedback of the people who use it.

We believe technology in recruiting can be used in two opposite ways: to squeeze the candidate or to serve them. Nodi AI was born from the second. And if you want to spot the openings that are not worth your time before you apply, we also wrote a guide on how to tell if a job posting is fake.

Try it today

Looking for a job should not feel like shouting inside an empty room. If you are in that search, or know someone who is, give a different way of doing it a chance.

Start for free at nodi.global/candidates/agent

This is only the beginning, and like everything at Nodi, it will keep growing with you. If you use it, tell us what you thought: your feedback is what builds the next version.

Frequently asked questions

What is Nodi AI? It is a free AI-powered job search tool where you describe the job you are looking for in your own words (role, technologies, location) and the AI asks you the right questions to connect you with real opportunities that fit your profile.

Does Nodi AI cost anything for candidates? No. It is a free tool for people looking for work.

How is it different from a traditional job board? Instead of browsing hundreds of ads (many of them ghost jobs) and filling in rigid filters, with Nodi AI you talk in natural language and the AI refines the search with you, steering you toward real opportunities.

What are ghost jobs? They are openings that companies post with no real intention of hiring, to collect resumes, fake growth or compare salaries. It is estimated that up to one in five online postings could fall into this category.

How do I start using Nodi AI? Go to nodi.global/candidates/agent, type the kind of job you are looking for and let the tool ask you the right questions. It is free and all you need to do is describe what you want.

Nodi AI was built together with our community, with the goal of making finding a job a human, transparent and real process again.